VladRussian2

Giving the retail markup of say 50% and wholesale markup of say 30%, the difference at the manufacturer of $90 vs. say $50 becomes $31 vs. $17 ($10 vs $5 BOM :)

The law has always been reflecting the power balance and nothing more. It reflects morality only as a consequence of and to the extent to which moral people have power.

http://venturebeat.com/2012/10/21/impermium/

"Rather than use an internal data services team, the company turned to Kaggle, a startup that hosts data-driven competitions.

From around the world, statisticians competed to build a tool that combines machine learning and natural language processing to root out malicious commentary. The winner received $7,000 — their solution was the most accurate with a false positive rate of less than one percent.

After posting the competition, the company received 154 submissions from contenders, and made some interesting discoveries about the nature of hate speech. "

or may be they just don't want to burn angry giant troll's whiskers with all the downside while no meaningful upside to be reasonably expected.

One of the underlying reasons for such non-involvement may be the fact that politics is really a thinly veiled violence, and my generation - gen-X - and the millenials found the sanctuary from it (i.e. feeling like they found it as such sanctuary is impossible, just an illusion of it if you can afford it) in technology.

In Doge we trust.

http://www.realvnc.com/products/viewerplus/

"Computers with particular Intel® Core™ vPro™ processors enjoy the benefit of a VNC-compatible Server embedded directly onto the chip, enabling permanent remote access and control. A RealVNC collaboration with Intel's ground-breaking hardware has produced VNC Viewer Plus, able to connect even if the computer is powered off, or has no functioning operating system."

in theory vs. in practice

so one more consulting participant and review layer to dig teeth into government money without actually delivering on the project? And with the best intentions like everybody else :)

actually the first toys i remember are dolls that i inherited from my cousin sister. Didn't help though - top math/physics grades through school, regional math/physics competitions 2nd place, math department at one of the top Russian universities (dropped from PhD at the end), and programmer for the last 2 decades. Left brained to the point of moronism. (My father about the same. His single mother couldn't afford nor legos nor dolls, pretty much nothing. And from what little i know about my grand-dad on this side - his left brain ruled like crazy too).

>Having published for 40 years with only very few citations means that his works were either irrelevant or only found extremely limited circulation. Both makes the claims less trustworthy.

while i don't know anything about this guy, beside one in 1976, the Google citation index seems to show only ones in current century.

Quick search from other link http://www.ecosecretariat.org/ftproot/High_Level_Meetings/Su... :

"He contributed in the development of mathematics, for which he was awarded to the prize of the Department of physics-mathematical sciences of AS [Academy of Sciences] of USSR in 1990. He published 200 scientific papers and monographs."

I'm sure that this guy did have at least some citations between 1976 and 2000 :)

Faraday's original approach was the "flow" of the field ( that was later mathematized by Maxwell).

i'd be very curious to hear from a female programmer from Russia. I just find it hard to believe in overturning of the sexist culture there, and my impression that we have more females in hi-tech here in SV.

Nursing would be among the worst professions for me. It requires a lot of simultaneous attention to wide variety of details - the cost of missing something is somebody's pain, injury, life... I can focus really deep on one thing at a time - suited me well in Math before and in programming now - while any situation requiring attention to a several different details in parallel or quick sequence just exhausts me.

Related to it is the perfection level required. Take the simplest thing - inserting needle into a vein. Doing it a 1000 times, you need to do it perfectly a 1000 times. In my mentality - it is much more efficient/faster to do something not perfectly, thus getting it right, say, 9 times out of 10 and apply additional effort to correct the 1 out of 10 mistake. The same about following a multi-item checklist (or multi-step procedures) - i immediately filter out "unnecessary/unimportant" items. Obviously, such mentality have no place in nursing :)

>By the subsequent text, "Roman road infrastructure remained relatively useful until about the 11th century AD" and they started building them again in the late middle age. The middle ages by definition in the 15th century so the 11th is already near the late middle age.

it isn't that Roman roads disappeared as physical artefacts - they are still there. It is the long-distance trade using this roads under protection of unified Roman Empire stopped. Similarly like long distance trade blooming under Mongol Empire (without any noticeable road infrastructure) had decreased significantly with Mongol Empire breaking up.

the cows (and other grazing animals in their group) evolved very special stomach to consume the grass (parts of grasses) which aren't consumable by predators like humans.

The comparison of consuming human-edible plants (or their parts) directly vs. feeding it to cows is rooted in industrialized beef production where corn is fed to cows. Such wasteful conversion of human edible food into more tastier/pricier human edible food allows for higher revenue and larder total profits - people will eat the same calories, beef is just more expensive packaging of it and thus generates more total revenue and profit in the societies which can afford it and want it.

>I'd still expect grain to be even easier to get -- animals are something of a luxury item

In normal situation, cows milk is a source of calories _additional_ to the grain as cows are fed on grasses grown where grain cultivation doesn't make much sense - short summer, not plain land, etc... They also fed on [minimally processed - fermented in big piles] wheat stems after grain is extracted. The cows feed today also includes processed waste from other areas of food industry - the quality of this stuff varies greatly from country to country depending on regulations and industry and society mentality about it.

No kidding. Oslo, annual average, 6.5C, Beijing : 12.5C. That's 59 latitude vs. 39, different Sun angle, longer days, etc... you know. And, btw, northern Chinese noticeably taller than south.

>The genetic difference between different peoples is not large enough to justify treating milk as essential for some group of people but not for others.

the study mentioned above explicitly describes the results of consuming milk vs. not consuming due to genetic difference. To me the difference is essential (grew in Russia). As result of evolution in Norway and overall Europe, people there also treat milk as essential.

shortage of staple food will cause price spike with related economical/political/social effects. Staple food isn't just a whimsical choice of consumer. Beside some exceptions (where people moved and brought their tradition with them), a staple food is a result of hundreds or thousands of years of evolutionary optimization for that population in that region. Milk in Europe is exactly such a case, and is a very important one to the population there. (see my other post in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7034795). Specifically, in case of milk in Norway any issues with its availability, in addition to short term price-spike related effects, would in long term affect negatively health and well being of children whose body/skeleton would be forming at the time.

"Where the C allele indicated lactase non-persistence and the T allele indicated lactase persistence, the study found that women that were homozygous for the C allele exhibited worse health than women with a C and a T allele and women with two T alleles. Women who were CC reported more hip and wrist fractures, more osteoporosis, and more cataracts than the other groups.[13] They also were on average 4–6 mm shorter than the other women, as well as slightly lighter in weight"

For colder, European climate, bigger weight/size is preferable (and bigger body requires stronger bones). Not so for warmer/Asian areas where smaller body size is ok and thus more favorable, in particular because it requires less animal protein, etc... which is less available there than in Europe.